Plague transmission may have begun a century before the Black Death, study shows
Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before ...
Smithsonian Magazine13d
On This Day in 1900, the Bubonic Plague Hit the Continental United States, Spiraling Into an Epidemic That Killed 119 People
On February 7, 1900, Chinese American lumberyard owner Wong Chut King fell ill. When he died a few weeks later, in March, an ...
New York Post24d
‘Gross’ moth invasion wreaks havoc on forests — and property values: ‘A very bad effect’
Tim's insects – stock.adobe.com The insect plague “could have a very bad effect” on California’s millions of acres of oak forest, study author Greg Dwyer, who teaches ecology and evolution ...
Hosted on MSN2mon
The Most Dangerous Insect (and 13 Others to Avoid)
This insect transmits Chagas disease by biting humans, typically around the face, and then defecating near the wound. The parasite in their feces enters the bloodstream and can cause serious heart ...
The Scientist9y
NYC Rats Harbor Plague Fleas
A team of entomologists, virologists, and immunologists trapped 133 Norway rats in Manhattan over a 10-month period and recorded the insects, arachnids ... which can cause disease in humans, but they ...
Nature2y
Pasteur and insect pathogens
A recent biography of Pasteur (shown to the right) outlines his contributions to understanding and preventing insect disease. His efforts from 1865 to 1870 led to the discovery that the disease ...
Mid-July crop insect and disease update
Potato leafhopper insects are currently being identified in area alfalfa fields at high enough numbers to justify insecticide treatment based on the level of leafhoppers per sweep as indicated ...